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Oregon State University: Corvallis, Oregon, US

2018-08-31 to present | Associate Professor, Professor, Physics of Oceans and Atmospheres (College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences)
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Melanie R Fewings

University of Connecticut: Groton, CT, US

2012-08-23 to 2018-08-24 | Assistant Professor, Associate Professor (Department of Marine Sciences)
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Melanie R Fewings

University of California Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, CA, US

2010 to 2012 | Assistant Research Oceanographer (Marine Science Institute)
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Education and qualifications (4)

University of California Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, CA, US

2007 to 2010 | Postdoc (Marine Science Institute)
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Melanie R Fewings

Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Cambridge / Woods Hole, MA, US

2001 to 2007 | Ph.D. Physical Oceanography (Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences / Physical Oceanography)
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Melanie R Fewings

Cornell University: Ithaca, NY, US

1996 to 1999 | M.S. Applied Physics (Applied and Engineering Physics)
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Melanie R Fewings

Western Washington University: Bellingham, WA, US

1992 to 1996 | B.S. Physics (Physics and Astronomy)
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Funding (6)

Water temperature in estuaries: river and ocean influences, effects of surface heat flux, and dynamical role of temperature stratification

2020-03-15 to 2024-02-29 | Grant
Directorate for Geosciences (Alexandria, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1949067
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Using RapidSCAT Ocean Vector Winds to Understand the Origin of Ocean Temperature Extremes off U.S. Coasts

2016-02 to 2017-11 | Contract
NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA, US)
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Melanie R Fewings

Satellite and Land-Based Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Wind Relaxations and the Oceanic Response in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem

The Influence of Coastal-Trapped Waves on the Inner Continental Shelf: Temperature and Circulation Patterns

2013-01-01 to 2015-03-31 | Grant
National Science Foundation - Directorate for Geosciences (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1338354
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Satellite and Land-Based Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Wind Relaxations and the Oceanic Response in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem

The Influence of Coastal-Trapped Waves on the Inner Continental Shelf: Temperature and Circulation Patterns

2010-04-15 to 2013-05-31 | Grant
National Science Foundation - Directorate for Geosciences (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 0957948
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Works (34)

Altimeter-derived poleward Lagrangian pathways in the California Current System: Part 1

Progress in Oceanography
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: P. Ted Strub; Corinne James; Jennifer L. Fisher; Melanie R. Fewings; Samantha M. Zeman; Vincent Combes; Jessica C. Garwood; Anna E. Bolm; Andrew Scherer
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Subsurface Temperature Anomalies Off Central Oregon During 2014–2021

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2024-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Brandy T. Cervantes; Melanie R. Fewings; Craig M. Risien
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Hydrographic shipboard profile data collected within Olympic coast national marine sanctuary, 2005–2023

Data in Brief
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Craig M. Risien; Kathryn R. Hough; Jeannette Waddell; Melanie R. Fewings; Brandy T. Cervantes
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Exchange of Plankton, Pollutants, and Particles Across the Nearshore Region

Annual review of marine science
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85141968404

Part of ISSN: 19410611
Contributors: Moulton, M.; Suanda, S.H.; Garwood, J.C.; Kumar, N.; Fewings, M.R.; Pringle, J.M.
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A stitch in time: Combining more than two decades of mooring data from the central Oregon shelf

Data in Brief
2023-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Craig M. Risien; Brandy T. Cervantes; Melanie R. Fewings; John A. Barth; P. Michael Kosro
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A satellite mission concept to unravel small-scale ocean dynamics and air-sea interactions: ODYSEA (Ocean Dynamics and Surface Exchange with the Atmosphere)

2023-05-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Tong Lee; Sarah Gille; Fabrice Ardhuin; Justin Boland; Mark Bourassa; Paul Chang; Sophie Cravatte; Tom Farrar; Melanie Fewings; Gregg Jacobs et al.
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Role of Sea Surface Physical Processes in Mixed‐Layer Temperature Changes During Summer Marine Heat Waves in the Chile‐Peru Current System

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2022-07 | Journal article
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Spatially gridded cross-shelf hydrographic sections and monthly climatologies from shipboard survey data collected along the Newport Hydrographic Line, 1997–2021

Data in Brief
2022-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Craig M. Risien; Melanie R. Fewings; Jennifer L. Fisher; Jay O. Peterson; Cheryl A. Morgan
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The effects of climate, oceanography, and habitat on the distribution and abundance of northern California Current continental shelf groundfishes

Fisheries Oceanography
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85108380157

Part of ISSN: 13652419 10546006
Contributors: Howard, R.A.; Ciannelli, L.; Waldo Wakefield, W.; Fewings, M.R.
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The Evolution of a Northward‐Propagating Buoyant Coastal Plume After a Wind Relaxation Event

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2021-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Jacqueline M. McSweeney; Melanie R. Fewings; James A. Lerczak; John A. Barth
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Integrated observations of global surface winds, currents, and waves: Requirements and challenges for the next decade

Frontiers in Marine Science
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85069765923

Part of ISSN: 22967745
Contributors: Bôas, A.B.V.; Ardhuin, F.; Ayet, A.; Bourassa, M.A.; Brandt, P.; Chapron, B.; Cornuelle, B.D.; Farrar, J.T.; Fewings, M.R.; Fox-Kemper, B. et al.
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Regional Structure in the Marine Heat Wave of Summer 2015 Off the Western United States

Frontiers in Marine Science
2019 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85073683442

Part of ISSN: 22967745
Contributors: Fewings, M.R.; Brown, K.S.
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Remotely sensed winds and wind stresses for marine forecasting and ocean modeling

Frontiers in Marine Science
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85069797724

Part of ISSN: 22967745
Contributors: Bourassa, M.A.; Meissner, T.; Cerovecki, I.; Chang, P.; Dong, X.; De Chiara, G.; Donlon, C.; Dukhovskoy, D.; Elya, J.; Fore, A. et al.
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The Influence of a Sandy Substrate, Seagrass, or Highly Turbid Water on Albedo and Surface Heat Flux

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2018-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2169-9275
Contributors: M. C. Fogarty; M. R. Fewings; A. C. Paget; H. M. Dierssen
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Effects of the Relaxation of Upwelling-Favorable Winds on the Diurnal and Semidiurnal Water Temperature Fluctuations in the Santa Barbara Channel, California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2017-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2169-9275
Contributors: María F. Aristizábal; Melanie R. Fewings; Libe Washburn
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Large-Scale Structure in Wind Forcing over the California Current System in Summer

Monthly Weather Review
2017-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0027-0644
Contributors: Melanie R. Fewings
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Impact of recently upwelled water on productivity investigated using in situ and incubation-based methods in Monterey Bay

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2017-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2169-9275
Contributors: Cara C. Manning; Rachel H. R. Stanley; David P. Nicholson; Jason M. Smith; J. Timothy Pennington; Melanie R. Fewings; Michael E. Squibb; Francisco P. Chavez
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Large‐scale anomalies in sea‐surface temperature and air‐sea fluxes during wind relaxation events off the United States West Coast in summer

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2017-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Kayla R. Flynn; Melanie R. Fewings; Christopher Gotschalk; Kelly Lombardo
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Satellite sea surface temperatures along the West Coast of the United States during the 2014–2016 northeast Pacific marine heat wave

Geophysical Research Letters
2017-01-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Chelle L. Gentemann; Melanie R. Fewings; Marisol García‐Reyes
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Contrasting spatial patterns in the diurnal and semidiurnal temperature variability in the Santa Barbara Channel, California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2016 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84959508063

Contributors: Aristizábal, M.F.; Fewings, M.R.; Washburn, L.
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Wind relaxation and a coastal buoyant plume north of Pt. Conception, CA: Observations, simulations, and scalings

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2016-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2169-9275
Contributors: Sutara H. Suanda; Nirnimesh Kumar; Arthur J. Miller; Emanuele Di Lorenzo; Kevin Haas; Donghua Cai; Christopher A. Edwards; Libe Washburn; Melanie R. Fewings; Rachel Torres et al.
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Synoptic forcing of wind relaxations at Pt. Conception, California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2016-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2169-9275
Contributors: Melanie R. Fewings; Libe Washburn; Clive E. Dorman; Christopher Gotschalk; Kelly Lombardo
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Coastal water circulation patterns around the Northern Channel Islands and Point Conception, California

Progress in Oceanography
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84946834227

Contributors: Fewings, M.R.; Washburn, L.; Ohlmann, J.C.
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Biological and physical interactions on a tropical island coral reef: Transport and retention processes on moorea, French Polynesia

Oceanography
2013 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84881530965

Contributors: Leichter, J.J.; Alldredge, A.L.; Bernardi, G.; Brooks, A.J.; Carlson, C.A.; Carpenter, R.C.; Edmunds, P.J.; Fewings, M.R.; Hanson, K.M.; Hench, J.L. et al.
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Lagrangian Observations of Inner-Shelf Motions in Southern California: Can Surface Waves Decelerate Shoreward-Moving Drifters Just outside the Surf Zone?

2012-08 | Journal article
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Melanie R Fewings
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The Wind- and Wave-Driven Inner-Shelf Circulation

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Melanie R Fewings

The propagating response of coastal circulation due to wind relaxations along the central California coast

2011-12-20 | Journal article
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Melanie R Fewings
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Summertime cooling of the shallow continental shelf

2011-07-19 | Journal article
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Melanie R Fewings
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Momentum balances on the inner continental shelf at Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory

2010-12-09 | Journal article
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Melanie R Fewings
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Observations and a Model of Undertow over the Inner Continental Shelf

2008-11 | Journal article
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Melanie R Fewings
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Observations of Cross-Shelf Flow Driven by Cross-Shelf Winds on the Inner Continental Shelf

2008-11 | Journal article
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Melanie R Fewings
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Cross-shelf circulation and momentum and heat balances over the inner continental shelf near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

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Melanie R Fewings

Long-term evolution and coupling of the boundary layers in the Stratus Deck Regions of the eastern Pacific (STRATUS)

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Compensation of pulse distortions by phase conjugation via difference-frequency generation

2000 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-0034402207

Part of ISSN: 0740-3224
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Peer review (2 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Geophysical research letters. (2)